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The suicide rates have always played a most important part in suicide research. They have been looked upon as the perfect instrument for measuring and comparing the size of the suicide problem in populations … Two years ago, in a symposium at Washington, a distinguished sociologist dismissed doubts about their reliability and comparability as part of the folklore of psychiatry.1
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Taylor, S. (1982). Some Critiques of Official Suicide Rates. In: Durkheim and the Study of Suicide. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16792-0_3
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